Troubles copying RT-11 tapes on VT103 (continued)

From: Paul Williams <celigne_at_celigne.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed Aug 21 14:51:00 2002

I passed along Megan's suggested COPY command to the company who are
trying to copy their one and only tape on a VT103. I have just received
the following response. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

Out of curiousity, I asked what the machine was and whether they had any
pictures. They have kindly passed along a scan of the original brochure,
which I'll put online shortly. The VT103 is controlling a CNC milling
machine for cams. It was made by a Swiss company called Macor SA, back
in 1983. I'm not surprised they're worried about the longevity of the
tape!

--quote--
As for the copying of the tape no success as of yet, I tried the
following:

i) COPY/SYS DDO: DD1:

  I tried this twice the first time the following messages appeared :-

  FILES COPIED:

  ?MON-F-SWAP ERROR

  I then tried to boot the system using using the new copy and it said:

  ?BOOT-F-NO BOOT ON VOLUME

  The second time I tried the message was:

  PIP-F-DIRECTORY INPUT ERROR DD0:

ii) COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS DD1:

  This caused the following:

  ?DUP-F-OUTPUT ERROR DD1:

I don't know if this will mean anything to you but the following
messages are what is shown on the screen when the system is booting up,
I thought it might shed some light on the situation:

  RT-11FB V04.00
  .SET TT: SCOPE
  .SET TT: WIDTH=120
  .SET USR NOSWAP
  .RUN ID

The last command loads up the program that's all I know, because on the
tape there are two programs ID and IDT when we want to swap between them
we press CTRL C then the message ?MON-F-SWAP ERROR appears and then we
enter RUN ID or RUN IDT

One thought I did have, do I need to format or erase the blank tape
before copying on to it?
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- Paul
Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 14:51:00 BST